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The rise and fall of Domestic Baking 2 years ago

Today I had the weirdest of inspirations about doing some baking at home. I settled on a short crust pastry something, anything really that I could think up on the go. I cheated and bought some frozen dough – an oat short crust pastry dough – mainly because I hate the mixer here at home. (The one at work is so much better…)

After deciding on some pies, I still had half the dough left. Part of that I cut into thin stripes and shaped into the spiral cookies you can see in the picture. Except that you can’t see much anything of the shape at all, I should have made it a lot airier and not so stuffed. Problem is that this dough is extremely unflexible…

Then I had a stroke of insanity and did two d00d-cookies before I made myself quit it. The rest of the dough became those three uneven blobs of dough, after which I piped some marmalade on top of them. The piping bag was a wondrous triangular piece of greaseproof paper, that lasted just barely for the duration of this operation.

Can’t upload more pictures at once, so more about the pies below…

Dec 16, 2006, 10:49AM PST | 2 cheers


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dance like pasta sauce

Cheese-curd pie

First you take the short crust dough and shape it along the edges of the dish. I put some butter between the pie and the mold to help with the extraction process later…

Dec 16, 2006, 10:52AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

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Add some filling...

Next we put in the filling. I did this by mixing unseasoned cream cheese and unseasoned curd cheese, about twice the amount curd cheese, and then a little sugar.

Here’s one suggestion for the amounts:

400 grams Curd cheese (unseasoned)
150 grams Cream cheese (unseasoned)
80 grams Sugar

Some optional ingredients:
Citrus juice (a little)
Vanilla (just a little)

Put them in the mixer for half a minute to one minute, just enough to make it a smooth mix.

I like it with more cream cheese than this recipe had. Make it a smooth layer across the pie dough, but remember it will rise a little in the oven! When you spread the dough in the pie mold earlier, I hope you remembered to push it up the edges too. The filling doesn’t quite go up to these edges, if you want a visually pleasing outcome.

Dec 16, 2006, 10:58AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

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A finished product

Here we can observe the cheese-curd pie in its natural habitat. In the picture it’s cooling down in the fridge after having spent 20 minutes in an oven at 200 Celcius, but it might have been a bit too short time. I judged it fine because the pies were so tiny, but I doubt it would have been enough for a larger one. You bake it and tell me.

Also, as you can see, these pies had too much filling in them. They became too high and you can’t really see the edges underneath.

Dec 16, 2006, 11:00AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

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And they lived happily ever after

This is ample proof that someone has been happy with the pie, never mind any small errors in the looks or taste. That’s because I forgot to add the citrus juice in my mix, so the taste was a bit adequate, but still a thrilling experience!

At work when I did these, we had these super funky little fruits we added on top of each slice. I don’t remember the English name very well – only that it started with the letter Z – a small tasty fruit covered by four leaf-like petals. I thought it fit this pie perfectly, but sadly I couldn’t find any at the local grocery store.

Dec 16, 2006, 11:03AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

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Dec 17, 2006, 09:24PM PST

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Dec 16, 2006, 11:57AM PST

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Making a mookery of cookery

You mean there’s another approach? ;)

I’m happy that you found something good about it. I’ll make a chocolate cake next weekend and document it similarly, but I doubt there’s enough motivation to bake anything until then, what with the craziest week of the year at work starting right from next Monday…

Dec 16, 2006, 12:39PM PST | Respond to this


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